Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > I don't know, but it may be a good idea to make this more general: Why not > > build the sign-off line here, so that you could also add more than one > > sign-off lines ('--signoff="The great committer <ter@xxxxxxx>"'), and > > maybe even Acked-by's? > > Perhaps. > > > Okay, this would be a little harder with multiple sign-offs. But the check > > could be easier, i.e. if we say > > > > rev.add_signoff = xmalloc(enough_room); > > strcpy(rev.add_signoff, "\nSigned-off-by: "); > > strcat(rev.add_signoff, committer_ident); > > strcat(rev.add_signoff, "\n"); > > > > then a simple > > > > p = strstr(commit_buffer, rev.add_signoff); > > if (p) > > return (int)(p - commit_buffer); > > > > would do the trick. > > Do you mean, by "multiple sign-offs", something like this? > > for (so_list = rev.add_signoff; so_list; so_list = so_list->next) { > if (strstr(commit_buffer, so_list->item)) > continue; > append_to_commit_buffer(so_list->item); > } > return tail - commit_buffer; Actually, I did not think of a linked list, but one buffer, but I like your solution better. > > And shouldn't we error out if there is not enough room for a sign-off? > > I do not think we error out if the commit message is too long > either, so... ... so you could say that should be an error, too. Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html